Re: Missing option to install SUSE 10.0 beta3 from hard-disk

From: NunYa Bidness (nunyabidness_at_nunyabidness.org)
Date: 09/02/05 

Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:48:23 GMT

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:21:39 GMT, imotgm
<imotgm_REM@invalid-yahoo.com> Gave us:

>On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:42:06 +0000, houghi wrote:
>
>> imotgm wrote:
>>> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:12:46 +0000, houghi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robert Hull wrote:
>>>>> In alt.os.linux.suse, on Tuesday 30 August 2005 16:13, houghi
>>>>><houghi@houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Just so you know. Beta means ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Sony's failed attempt to dominate the VCR standards :-)
>>>>
>>>> No, that is Betamax, not Beta.
>>>
>>> And did you even hear the flutter of it's little wings, as that one flew
>>> right over your head? ;-)
>>
>> Do you think it went over my head or did what I wrote go over yours?
>
>What you wrote was a factual statement, as a reply, to correct a previous
>statement, that was offered as a joke. That is the most positive sign I
>can think of that the joke was missed.
>
>If there is any humor in "No, that is Betamax, not Beta.", other than
>that which i stated above, then you are correct, it went right over mine,
>and you will have to spell it out. I see none.

  That's his way of saying "I won't let you paint me into a corner,
even if I am already in one...

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